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Motif

Recognition by overheard conversation (usually with animals or objects). Person not daring to reveal self directly thus attracts attention and recognition.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition through common knowledge. · view the constellation · filed as H13

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 62, 69 Nos. 445*B, 515*
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Thonga) Junod 231.
  • general *Types 313, 533, 706, 870
  • general *BP I 19, III 445ff.
  • general *Fb "hest" I 598b, "ovn" II 774a
  • general **Liungman Jordkulan passim
Within the index

Filed under Recognition through common knowledge.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Recognition by overheard conversation with animal Recognition by overheard conversation with objects Recognition from overheard conversation of two sons Recognition from overheard conversation with flower-woman
Filed beside it
Recognition through story-telling. Telling of a story known to both persons concerned brings about recognition Recognition by song (music). Person is recognized because the song is sung only by him or because he is the only one besides the listener who knows it Recognition by observing emotional reactions of another to object of common experience Identity tested by account of common experiences Recognition by describing or producing object of common knowledge Recognition by reminders of what has been said Recognition by password Recognition through common knowledge – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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